Last year’s Heritage Open Days 2009 were an exciting event, with Birmingham Conservation Trust seeing a resulting flurry of activity in support of the Newman Brothers Coffin works. In no time at all, it’s nearly Heritage Open Days 2010! The event will take ...
read moreThis is a video of Birmingham’s poet laureate visiting tea takers at Blakesley Hall – the 16th century home of Birmingham merchant Richard Smalbroke. Their family legacy lives on in this Tudor half-timber wattle and daub farmhouse and in the concrete glory ...
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Public Sculpture Trails Birmingham’s historical features that contribute to the city’s quality and character are most obvious in its built heritage. However, aspects of Birmingham’s heritage are represented through the associations with historical people and events, literature and with art. Birmingham is rich ...
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Curzon Street Station by Pete Ashton on flickr (click picture for the original) When it was built Curzon Street Station in Birmingham was one end of a cutting edge railway line. If the government’s plan to build a high speed railway line from ...
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The Conservation Trust has been granted £14,000 of funding from English Heritage to carry out an architect’s appraisal at the 17th-century Bells Farm. It’s great news for the farmhouse, which is a Grade II*-listed and in urgent need of restoration ...
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Highbury Hall in Birmingham by ringsofsaturnrock on flickr (click on picture for original) The Friends of Highbury Park in Moseley/Kings Heath have highlighted (in their January newsletter), that Highbury Trust is looking for proposal for new charitable uses for the land and buildings ...
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Brandwood End Cemetery has twin Grade II-listed Mortuary chapels which are in need of restoration and improvements. Brandwood End Mortuary Chapels The chapels make the centrepiece of the cemetery and are designed by Birmingham-architect J. Brewin Holmes in the Gothic style of terracotta and ...
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Central Library in Birmingham by Rory Munro - click for original. The government has announced that the John Madin designed Birmingham Central Library will not be listed – which means that the building can now be demolished as part of Birmingham’s Big City ...
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This week we are confirming that Advantage West Midlands has withdrawn funding from the project to transform the Newman Brothers Coffin Fittings Factory in Fleet Street. It means that this Grade II* building on the at risk register is likely to remain ...
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Like lots of other organisations, the Birmingham Conservation Trust wouldn’t exist or be able to function without the time, enthusiasm and energy of our fabulous volunteers. So we thought we’d share a little bit about who some of them are and what ...
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